Comment: If "Australia's equal opportunity laws prevent discrimination based on race, religion or sexuality," then barring heterosexuals breaks this law. Why can sexual discrimination only be against gays? This is another method of divide and conquer on behalf of the state, getting us all at each other's throats by giving some more rights than others.

A gay pub in the city of Melbourne has won the right to ban heterosexuals - the first time such legislation has been passed in Australia.
The Victorian state civil and administrative tribunal ruled the Peel Hotel could ban patrons based on their sexual orientation.

The pub's management said the move would stop groups of heterosexual men and women abusing gay people.

Civil liberties groups have supported the decision.

'Safe balance'

The tribunal's president said groups of straight women found homosexual men entertaining but that such attention was dehumanising, the BBC's Phil Mercer in Sydney says.